[Spice-devel] [PATCH] vdagent-win: Assure you set a new HKEY_CURRENT_USER changing user.

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Fri Apr 24 01:31:06 PDT 2015


On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Anyway when you impersonate a user HKEY_CURRENT_USER is pointed to
> HKEY_USERS\<sid-string-of-user> (think as a symbolic link). If
> HEKY_CURRENT_USER is already opened (which usually is the case)
> Windows do not change the registry key and you will still find old
> values.
> Probably you should close the key even before RevertToSelf. Surely
> IMHO before ImpersonateLoggedOnUser.

Hmm I would expect RevertToSelf to uncache HKEY_CURRENT_USER as
it's likely to change.

Christophe
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